Questions about the Decision Map.
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The essentials
What do I get on day one?
For $49, one Decision Map and its Fix First list, for one buying decision. Five questions you approve go to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, three times each: 60 answers, kept word for word. The Fix First list ranks every page those answers lean on. For each one it says what CitePack will ask that page to change, what’s yours to do, and what won’t be done and why. Both reach your account about 30 minutes after you approve your questions. Founding companies also get their first live page free.
What is a Decision Map?
A complete study of how AI answers present one offering, in one buying category, to buyers in one country. Five buying questions you approve go to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, three times each. The map shows the options put forward, your place in each answer, the words used about you and the pages cited or found by search, with the answer behind every finding.
Why not just ask ChatGPT myself?
You’d get one answer, shaped by your own account, history, settings and location. Ask again and it may change, and it tells you nothing about the other three engines. A Decision Map asks five approved questions on four engines, three times each, in your buyers’ market, and keeps every answer for you to read.
AI answers change every time. Can I rely on this?
That’s why every question is asked three times on every engine. You see where an answer holds and where it moves. Every repeat is kept, nothing is averaged away, and each finding shows how many answers stand behind it.
Can I see the raw answers?
Yes. Every finding leads back to the answers behind it, and each answer can be read in full with its engine, model and date. The Evidence & Trust page in the example map shows how it works.
Your study
What do I need to provide?
Your website, your buyers’ country, and the offering and buying category you want studied. CitePack suggests those last two from your site. Then you say in your own words what the offering is best at and who it’s for, and plan your five questions: a buying situation for each, with up to two buyer specifics. If you like, add who the offering isn’t for and facts you stand behind, such as a price, a limit or a certification.
Which countries can I choose?
Any country, one per map: the one your buyers are in. The field starts at the United States and you can change it. A company that sells in two countries runs two maps.
What are the five buying situations?
Five points in a buying decision. In category consideration, the buyer is just starting to look. In job suitability, they describe the work they need done. In mandatory eligibility, they have a condition they won’t bend on. In balancing priorities, one thing matters more to them than another. In change of solution, they’re moving away from what they use now. Each question covers one situation, and the five together cover the whole decision.
What are buyer specifics?
Details that make a question sound like your buyer: the work to be done, a must-have, a preference or what they use today. A question carries up to two, or none when it should stay broad. CitePack suggests them from your website, and you can write your own.
Who writes the questions?
CitePack drafts them from your study. You have the final word: change any wording you like, then approve all five together. Once approved they’re sealed. Every engine gets them exactly as written, and they don’t change for that study.
How does CitePack frame the questions?
CitePack drafts one question for each of the five buying situations, covering the whole decision. Each is framed for your offering, its buying category and your buyers’ market. It carries the specifics that matter, like the work to be done or a must-have. It is never a fixed prompt from a library. You read every question, change any wording and give the final go. Each goes to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, three times on each, every repeat clean. That makes 60 observations of one decision, every answer kept word for word.
How it’s asked
Which AI engines does it cover?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Each one is asked through its official API, in your buyers’ market, on a fixed model with its web search on.
How does my market reach each engine?
By default, two ways on every repeat: each question names your buyers’ country, and each engine is set to it. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity take it through their own location setting. Gemini gets a location point in your country. Your approved question is never changed, and your map records how the market reached each engine.
Does CitePack put my market into the questions?
Yes, by default, and we recommend it: that way all four engines read your market in the same words, inside the question itself. It’s your call. If you turn it off before you approve, the questions don’t name your market and CitePack sends no location to any engine, so each one answers from its own default. Your map shows which you chose.
Is this what my buyers see in the app?
It’s the pattern behind what they see. Each engine is asked through its API, on a model chosen to match its free app, with web search on, in your buyers’ country. In the app, each person’s history and settings shape their own screen, so no two match exactly. The map shows what holds across 60 controlled observations. It doesn’t replay any one person’s session.
Which model does each engine use?
A fixed model per engine, chosen to match the one its free app gives buyers. Every answer records the model that produced it, and answers from different models are never compared as if they were the same.
Do the engines search the web?
Yes. Web search is on for all four engines, so answers can draw on pages from the web. The map keeps the pages an answer cited apart from the pages its search found, and shows you both.
Your map
What’s in my Decision Map?
An Overview of how often you were put forward and named first across all 60 observations. A page for each question, with every answer. AI engines, on how each engine built its answers and which pages it used. Who gets picked, on the other names and who comes first. What AI says, which sets the answers’ words about you beside the headline phrases on your pages, and checks the prices, free plans and amounts they state against your website. And Evidence & Trust, with every answer exactly as it came back. Beside the map, at its own address, you get your Fix First list.
What is the Fix First list?
Every page your answers used, in the order to fix them. Corrections lead. Any page that gets a fact about you wrong, or carries a wrong entry for you, comes first whenever an answer used it. Next are the pages the engines cite again, where the same engine cited the page in at least 2 of the 3 askings of one question, so it isn’t chance. Pages cited once or only read, a rival’s own pages and pages with nothing to ask are one tap away. For each page it says what CitePack will ask for: correct what it gets wrong, fix your entry, restore you, add you, or a position review. If the page is your own, like your site or a profile you control, you get the details instead. If there’s no honest route, it says so and why. Every page names the answers behind it, how steady it is, and what it costs once it’s live.
Does it show my place in each answer?
Yes, when the answer gives one. If an answer lists options in a clear order, the map shows your place: first, second, third and so on, with how many answers held each place. If the order isn’t clear, the map says so instead of guessing.
Does it show the other companies named?
Yes. Who gets picked shows every other name in the answers, who comes before or after you and who is listed first, each with the answers behind it. It’s a record of what the answers said, not a ranking of companies.
What if the answers disagree?
You see the disagreement, not an average. You can read every answer, compare the repeats and see how many answers sit behind each finding.
Is a mention the same as being offered?
No. An answer can mention your company without presenting your offering as an option. A citation is different again: it is a reference to a page. The map records each one separately, so a mention is never reported as an offer and a cited page is never reported as a recommendation.
What is placement, and when do I pay?
Placement is CitePack working the pages on your Fix First list. You tick the pages you want worked on, up to 10 per map. We send each editor the correction or the case for adding you, through the way that page takes requests. If an editor wants to try you first, you give one trial seat. For the ten founding companies, correcting a page, fixing your entry or restoring you costs $29, and adding you or a position review costs $59 (₹1,499 or ₹2,999 if you pay from India). After the founding ten, it’s $49 and $149 (₹2,499 or ₹7,499). You’re billed only once the change is live and rechecked on day 7. You get one bill a month, for the pages that went live that month, and nothing is billed on a no. If a correction or a fix to your entry is gone by the day-30 recheck, we refund it. Restoring you, adding you or a position review isn’t refunded. We never pay editors. If a publisher only sells its places, you pay the publisher directly and our fee is $59, or $149 after the founding ten.
Can I measure the same decision again?
Yes. Measure Again asks the same five questions to the same four engines in the same market, on the day you choose, for $29, or ₹1,499 if you pay from India. It is not part of the founding seat. The Before/After Snapshot puts the two maps side by side, with each page’s check beside what changed. It reports movement or none and never promises a change. It is not a daily tracker or a score.
Will it tell me how to get recommended?
No one can promise that, and we don’t. You get the pages your answers lean on: the Fix First list ranks each one and ties it to the answers behind it. It doesn’t guess at an engine’s reasons, and it never promises a recommendation, a citation, or that a change will move the answers.
Is this a visibility score or an ongoing monitor?
Neither. One Decision Map is a complete study of one offering in one buying category, for one buyer market, with its Fix First list. Measure Again is there when you want it. No single score, no league table of companies, no continuous monitoring.
Are the examples on this site real results?
Not as results. Crosstrow is an illustrative example. Every example here, the full example map included, shows how to read a Decision Map. None of it is a study result, a customer study or evidence of a commercial outcome.
Founding cohort & price
Can I start now?
The founding cohort is open: ten seats, first come, first served. Ask for a founding seat, and if one is yours, we’ll send you your own sign-in.
What is the founding cohort?
The first ten companies to run a Decision Map. Each gets its own sign-in, sets up its own study and pays $49, or ₹2,499 if you pay from India, for its Decision Map and Fix First list, and gets its first live page free. After the founding ten, the map stays $49, or ₹2,499, with no free page.
How does it work, step by step?
Ask for a founding seat. The ten founding seats are first come, first served, and each one comes with its own sign-in. You sign in, set up your study and pay at checkout. Then you read the five questions CitePack drafted, change any wording and approve them. Your map is in your account 30 minutes later on average, and we email you when it’s ready, with a link to your Fix First list. If it isn’t delivered within 24 hours, you get a full refund.
How much does it cost?
One Decision Map with its Fix First list costs $49, or ₹2,499 if you pay from India. The ten founding companies also get their first live page free. After that, each page costs $29 to correct it, fix your entry or restore you, and $59 to add you or for a position review (₹1,499 or ₹2,999), paid only once it’s live. After the founding ten, the map stays $49 with no free page, and each page costs $49 or $149 (₹2,499 or ₹7,499). A map covers one offering in one buying category and one buyer market; a different one is its own map. If your map isn’t delivered within 24 hours, you get a full refund.
How long until I get my map?
30 minutes on average after you approve your questions. We email you when it’s ready. If it isn’t delivered within 24 hours, you get a full refund.
What if my map takes longer than 24 hours?
You get a full refund. If your map isn’t delivered within 24 hours of approving your questions, we refund what you paid in full.
Where do I see my map?
In your CitePack account. Only you can open it.
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